Early Childhood Development and
Services Pathway Introduction
July 21, 2011
Early Child Forum Meeting
Why is this being shared with you?
Secondary Family and Consumer Sciences departments are offering
occupational coursework to begin the skill set needed in quality early
child related employees.
These programs can provide you with the future workforce you
need, these programs need you now to guide them as well as offer
training sites for their students.
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Agenda:
 ECDS in the career clusters.
Needs of industry
 Review the pathway design
 Review course content
 Look at industry connections
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Kansas Career Cluster
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Early Childhood Development and
Services Outlook
Determining factors:
High demand, High skills, High wage
 Childcare Assistant
Family and Consumer
Occupations:
(500,000+)
 Nanny (500,000+)
 Teacher Assistant (400,000)
 Childcare Facilities Director
(25,000)
 Parent Educator (120,000)
 Elementary School
Counselor (94,000)
 Preschool Teacher
(500,000+)
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Sciences Teachers (500,000+)
(High Demand… Severely
High Demand …
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ECDS Approved Program
FCS departments that offer this pathway are
required to comply with six state directives to
ensure the skill set is being developed, practiced and
demonstrated in authentic experiences.
ECDS Approved Program
A. Course competency adoption is required—
--Schools must adopt the competencies that were developed
and approved by business, industry and the Kansas Advisory
Council for Career and Technical Education.
--Series of three levels of courses:
Introductory
Intro to Human
Services
or
Career and Life
Planning
Technical
Orientation to Early
Childhood
Development
or
Human Growth and
Development AND
Family Studies
Foundations of Early
Childhood
Application
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B. Post-secondary articulation is required.
Agreements between secondary and post-secondary schools
must be present. The agreement would recognize specific
courses or a pathway completion to allow the skill training to
seamlessly continue leading to a more qualified workforce.
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C. Industry certification/competencies are embedded.
1. CDA--The Child Development Associates certification is
embedded in the technical and application levels of this pathway to
ensure the industry standards are included.
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CDA experiences embedded in the courses.
Resource Collections Document—Infant/Toddler
CDA Ready Infant/Toddler Documentation Form
Resource Collections Document—Preschool
CDA Ready Preschool Documentation Form
2. KS/MO Competencies—The KS/MO competencies have been
cross-walked in the technical and application level course
competencies to indicate the correlation.
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D. An industry-related advisory council is required.
Members of the local community who work in this field are to
be identified and utilized to provide the guidance of the
pathway courses, and provide input on training options and
teaching resources.
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E. An application is submitted (CPPSA).
An application is submitted to KSDE which ensures all the
above items are in place and are re-evaluated each year to
document that the advisory committee has offered guidance
and their guidance was followed, resources are current and
the skill set is being addressed
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F. Authentic experiences with assessments are part of the
pathway.
 Mentoring experiences
 Interactions with children in general to gain comfort level.
 Practice learned skills…interacting appropriately, enhancing
development through teacher created experiences (i.e. writing a
children's book to read to them about an issue of importance such
as sharing or having a new baby in the family).
 Student-create experiences to practice their skill in activity
development.
 Entering CTSO Contest
 FCCLA—Early Childhood
 Skills USA—Preschool Teaching Assistant
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Benefits of becoming involved.
 Children’s needs will be addressed thru training to provide
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quality care .
Early Childhood Industry will be on the road to having a trained
workforce.
Industry will have the future workforce to provide for their
children and the children of their employees.
CTE students will make the connection between what they are
learning and how those skills will be used.
CTE students will see the connection to their future employment
options.
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Thank you
Gayla Randel
KSDE Education Program Consultant
Family and Consumer Sciences
120 E 10th Street, Topeka, KS 66612
785-296-4912
grandel@ksde.org